Venturini Motorsports teammates Poole and Reed lead ARCA Practice at Pocono

[media-credit name=”ARCARacing.com” align=”alignright” width=”345″][/media-credit]Following a mock qualifying run by each of the Venturini Motorsports teammates right at the end of the practice session at Pocono Raceway, Brennan Poole would lead practice with his teammate Ryan Reed second.

Poole posted the fastest lap at 52.494 seconds, beating Reed by 0.013 seconds.

Both drivers are looking for success this year in Venturini’s 30th year competiting in the ARCA Series. It marks the first full season for both drivers and they’ve been impressive as Poole has two wins, while Reed is looking for his first win to go with his four top fives.

Alex Bowman led most of the 80 minute practice and was in the garage making changes to run a mock qualifying run, however did not make it out on track before the end of the session.  Bowman would finish the session third, less than 0.2 seconds behind Poole.

“We’ve got that different tapered spacer for the old-style motors and that’s definitely helping us out a bit,”  Bowman says. “Everybody at Cunningham Motorsports prepared the same race car. We’re the same as we were, just different gears. (Crew chief) Paul Andrews is definitely doing a great job, we’ve got great Penske horsepower, and it’s cool to have St. Jude’s on board. I definitely feel like we’re the fastest car here.”

A.J. Henriksen was fourth and Frank Kimmel was fifth. It was Kimmel that took the checkered flag first in the last race for the ARCA Racing Series for his 75th ARCA win.

Chad Hackenbracht, Matt Lofton, Chris Buescher, Will Kimmel, and Grant Enfinger rounded out the top 10. Buescher currently leads Poole by 20 points in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards point standings. Both drivers are looking for their first championship.

Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell will begin at 5:15 p.m. Live timing and scoring coverage from the session will be available on ARCARacing.com.

Practice Results